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Increased ability for K 12 and higher ed to share sick leave

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Doug Nelson

Yesterday, the Senate approved on a vote of 45-0 ESB 6724, a measure that allows K 12 employees to share sick leave with state agencies and higher education institutions if their different employers agree to do it.  This bill was a result of a situation which involved a K 12 teacher who wanted to share her sick leave with her sick sister who was a higher education employee who had run out of her sick leave.    Unfortunately, they were not allowed to do this because the law only allows K 12 employees to share sick leave with employees in their school district.

A secondary benefit of this bill is to allow employees to share sick leave to a maximum of 261 days if the employee receiving the shared leave has worked less than 10 years, 522 days if less than 20 years, and 783 days if 20 or more years of service.

Posted by: Doug Nelson on 2/16/2010 at 9:07:00 PM

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PSE surprise

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Doug Nelson

Ehren Flygare and I were waiting to meet with Speaker Frank Chopp’s chief of staff and noticed the following advertisement for PSE being used to store sugar packs for coffee in his reception room!

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Posted by: Doug Nelson on 2/13/2010 at 2:20:00 PM

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